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WILD HORSES.' 0 A OF THE31 ARE STILt m ~ .FOUND ON THE PLAINS. tn at eterwestng Accoant of the Manner 4M Which They Av'e Captured a After Being Worn Oat and Pretty Nearly Starved. t! ai ERDS of wild horses are stil found roaming over the plains' ci of western Kansas and eastero t Colorado, where the irrigating t( litch has not yet meandered, and conse- u juently the ranchman is sttil absent. q rhere is plenty of buffs'o grass on these ti irid prairies, but crons will not grow, c: without artifical appliiation of moisture, t< hence the wild hor3es and the almost a equally wili cattle have still undisputed to possession. e The wild horse isn't the least bit like c the Texas or Indian pony. He is heavier, i weighing from 800- to 1000 pounds, while the pony weigbs from 50 0 to 750 e pounds; he is squarely built, broad a cross the hips, strong limbed, high headed and stylish, while the Indian rony is slim, thin legged, slender ia body, low headed and a "slouch," but the pony is shipped East and sold, while the wild horse is xept at home. There ate two reasons for keeping the wild I horses at home. First, the plainsmen kr.ow when they have a good thing, and, second, a wild horse has to be broken ev ry time he is hitched up. There is no use in trying to break a wild horse so that he will stay broken; one might as well try to teach an Indian to wear curl papers; but these wild i horses are sure-footed, long-winded strong-nerved saddle horses,and untiring in harness. A team of these fellows, weighing not more than nine hundred pounds to the horse, will travel, week in and week out, at the rate of 100 miles a day, drawing the driver and _an ordinary two-seated light wagon. The method of capturing these wild horses is peculiar and worthy of descrip tion. Taey are not run down, but are walked down. Each band of wild horses has its especial range, and woe to any intruders froma other bands. Tae range seldom exceeds fifty mi's in extent. Those who make it their business to cao ture them go in parties of four, with a wagon in which they carry provisions for themselves, grain for their horses, barrels of water, lariats, etc. As a rule they take with them tifteen or twenty saddle horses in order that they may change mounts three or four times each rwenty-four hours. They travel until they discover with strong field glasses a band of wild horses ten or fifteen miles distant. Then they make camp leavingC two men in charge of the supply wagon and the extra saddle horses. The other two then begin their fatiguing task of walking the wild horses down. They start toward thAdr game bearing slightly to the right, in order to get them started in a circle. Their ob ject is to keep them circling around the camp within a radius of twenty or thirty miles. This is for the purpose of being -. ear enough to their base of supplies to ob~"vgh horses, and to allo w the tired ones to res --g h "king" of the band first catches sight of~in5men. he starts oI~ at break-neck speed, the rest following him. For a few miles they pound along in a straight line an 1. then begin to circle slightly. The Dur suers manage to keep sight of the game and to keep them going until they begin to get tired and thirsty. The riders never rush in on then; that would spoil all their chances of a successful result. Their sole object now is to keep the game moving and prevent them fro~n obtaining any water or food. Surprsin4f as it may seem, it takes about three weeks of this "Dr:. Tanner" business to to get the wild horses sufficiently st.arved down to allow an approach within a mile of them. After this point is reached, the men can easily keep the horses going in an ever decreasi. g circle, f until at last they are "milling" around j within a radius of not more than fifty yards. Now all four of the men come into active service. They take a rape, at least five hundred feet long, and, making a slip loose in one end of it eight or ten feet in diameter, they spread this upon the ground and drive the game over it. One of the men pulls the rope and gener ally succeeds in snaring the foot of one I of the wild horses. Tne rest of the band are kept circling, while the man devotes . his entire attention to the snared . animal. A lasso is thrown over the cap tive's head and he is choked down and a chain twenty inches long is fastened by a strap to one of his forelegs in such a& way that it hobbies him. He can't make much speed, because the chain wraps around his other !oreleg and impedes his progress. After the chain is attached the horse is released and allowed to join the band. This process of capture and 1 release is repeated until all of the wild horses have been chained. The hunt is now over, the "ga'ne" captured and raised to the dignity of horses in the minds of the men. The IC wagon is packed, a team attached and f and camno broken. Tue nearest water hole is sought out and a pause made b there until the saddle horses and the cap. tured animals have had time to recruit fr their exhauste~d strength. Lie wild tb horses are not all'oxed t') drink all they re want at first for fear of founsdering the:n. They are herded carefully day and night until they have becom'e rested and geaer 'lly recuperated. After this period of rest the "outfit" is moved to the home r -h and after thle wild horses have worn the chains for a month they can be trustedri a field surr.)unded by a good barbel wire fence, prov.ided a nunuber *if tamne horses are turnedi in with thet.. It is a great tass to) t.?ac' them to drisnk water out of a trough. They are fr'.;;tenel almuost out of th"-ir 6:;at tue sight of a windmill .a water:ank, and at first refuse to driaik fr.':n a::y artiacial receptacle. The wa;-ar a~ all)wed to run out up)on thie. .round and the wild horses drinc it .i Ire'ti;. This muethod is observed Ior at ~i ct und an I the water ra intc an;d over themi. It requires four or tire tr v.eek- fa'r taie animials to make up~ their *i minds t:.at thec-e trou-;hs are um~ d:ada -e trns, in'endJ .1 for thieir instint <leses i 1..1 Ar thzey drink ouce frati -> m~zh their :ear disappears and tha. s rLevr .g dan .'bject to tuhe u.e lagtteanials ints a co:-ral, et e,: ndo~eis another ta'k reg unig --, asIl Cee of the watterin.4 piae, z eu -e fe at in circ'iference!. 1: iP 1 rode pefCtly c'>c. boardezi up adi tI ds.., P- ?m e t hiz.h. a.l. with a mzate xteen leerwoue. 1T'F-viags ext-end, V shape from the gates, to a distance 300 feet. These wing fences are1 ade of smooth wire, with siats at .ched every twelve inches. Tae wild id tame horses are driven into these ings together. After the tame horses ive gotten in the wild horses will make rush, and will all want to get in at the me moment. The instant they are in ie men shut the gates like lightning, 2d the "circus be.gins." The horses dash arounl Like crazy eatures and it takes a lobg time for IIni to -1iscover that they are not going > be killed on the spot. They are kcp: the corral over night and are let o'it uickly in the ioruing. 3y feeding 1e= in the corral and avoiding all ex- 5 itement they are gralually acCustomne 1 C > this close confinement. It takes six! Lonths to get them used to their quar ,rs, and after that time they will file in t ch night one by one of their own ac- E ord. The wild horses are now ready to se on the ranch. All you have to do is to break the -1 I very time you hitch thea up.--NUv .rk Advertiser. Marvels of Plantt Life. Nowhere is the evidence of design in ature more emphatically set forth than mong certain forms of plaut life which, a their various functions, seem to ap. roach so near the animal kingdom that he observer feels that there is some trange piant animal-something that night possibly form a connectiag link yetween the animals an plants. In a close study of these plants we see nany evidences cf seeming intelligence :hat are not found in some animals, and ;o remarkable are the actions of certain lants that the impression is forced upon is that we are confronted with intel igence, or something strangely akin to In the present paper I wish to cT11 at ention to the group which is popularly knowa as carnivorous plants, or flesh eaters. A familiar example is the little Irosera, so common in various portions Df the couutry. The plant is small and inconspicuous. The first one I ever saw maught my eye by a sudden flash of fiery red light, and kneeling on the damp grass, I fa.rly caught the little carnivora in the act which has rendered it so fam ous. There weIe several tender,delicate stalks in the centre, an. around about it near the ground four or five singular, round, pad-like objects, about the size of small buttons. These were leaves, and their upper surface was covered with reddish ten tacles that stood boldly up, each bearing a delicate drop of dew thar gleamed and glistened in the suntight like a veritable garnet. Across the top of tne leaves a long legged fragile insect lay, caught but a second before and dying a most terrible death. Five or six of the hair-like tentacies were thrown across its legs and wings, holding it down and pressing its body nearer and nearer to the leaf,while other rich blood-red stalks were in all pos i tions, bending over to encompass the vicitim. The sight was a horror in miniature, and reminded me of the actions of an octopus or devilfish, as the little cepha lopod is commonly called. It has eight sucker-lined arms radiating from a small, dyd body, and each arm has all henheinsiuiitsityo as if with suppressed emotion~while ver tne entire mass waies and varied hades of color seem to ebb and flo i. h Califamnian. A N5ARRow EscAPE. Saperly-"That was a narrow squeal. hat uppums had the other day." Sajoes-"I hadn't heard it." Sapperly-"Y as-another man o' th ane name was killed in a railway acci en."-Truth. - ALL EXCEPT THAT. "You 'nake all kinds of rings, I sup >ose," e said to the manufacturin eweler. "Yes, sir." "I would like to see you mahe tht relkin ring."-Judge. THE DtSTI~cTION. "You can s-say what you will ab-bou erbert," she sobbed. "He has brought unsne into my life." "My dear," replied her father firmly, 'it's an optical delusion. You think t's sunshine, but it's really moonshine." -Washington Star. A PLEBEIAN. Little Dot-"Lucy Locket wanted mr o go get 'quainted with that new little rirl, b~ut I wouldn't, 'cause that little irl isn't used to good s'ciety." Mamma-"Why do you think so?" Little Dot-"She can't screw her nosL pa bit."-Good Ne ws. A Mousa for- a Woman's Pet.I Mrs. Pauline Alexander, who has bee-1 ting matron of the receiving hospital r the past, two months, officiated at thxe >spital yesterday for the last time, as ne'w matron takes charge to-d ty. rs. Alexander has made numero:in iends while fulfilling h'er duties, but r are uone of the a with who:n she grts more to part than a little dxan> mrual which malkes its home wituiu the ipoards of the kitchen. "Mousey," as Mrs. Alexander nane 1 r r Iiend, is a little mouse with larg. ,rs asd thin body. Every mornin; at L'cock, when Mrs. Alexader weat d uty. a slight squeak could be hear l soon as she entere). the kitchen. Oa't dild come the little mouse an I hop dand the rmom until some break fast as placed 2 the f>or for it. Sa taan. vi the m~auie beco.ue that every even e it wold come out fro n under the pbard door as sooa as Mrs Alexa?nd r ould begin sujper for thc patients iu e wards. Last night Mrs. Alexan ier call1 her tie pet in hopes that she cyild case 1 and take it away with her. Tne mrn e ot't when caliled, but woul-I nit iia ughut. After eating froin a pile o~ umb placed on the dloor for it, the~ ;tle fellow returue I to its closer, hauvia~ ei~ve the last meal fro:n its hu a n ieud. Its next appe.urance on the Alo te kitchen will proba->1y em's a1 aall sized pa'nic.-Sau Francx.eo Cj.nx PAPA TRIES IT. .~nma-And how did my lit tle no e to sleep last night without mammn I Little Pe-"Papa tried to sing to mle ke y do, an' .1 hurried up an' went to MARINE NEWS. itEPOR TING IN COM ING AN D OUBT6 GO.LNG VESSELS AT NE W YOlK. !nsfde Workings of the Obzervratorie5 lDwn the Big Harbor-1ow the Ships' Signals Are Read-Th3 Observer as a Life Sarer. F !HE Western Union Telegraph Company makes $100,000 a rear reporting the arrivals and departures of vessels via Sandy look and L-ng Island Sound. It is one f the most profitable branches of the errice. There is a station on the blufi f the Highlands of Navesink, coast of ew Jersey, from which stretches a wire hat taps stations at Sandy Hook and he Quaiantine grounds on Staten IsI md on its winding way to this city. Those three stations report all the ves cls that enter and leave port by way of 5ar.dy Hook. The stations are called narine observatories. Those of Sandy iook and the Highlands of Nr';esink are :onducted by three men, wbl take turns >f eight hours each. Their priccipal luty is to sight and signal passing craft, )ut, in addition to being marine observ rs, they are experienced telegraphers. First of all they sight an incoming craft in the east offing oi seaward toward the east or south, and then they read the Four colored flags which she flies. These Las are part of the international code of signals. By mearis of an international agree ment every registered ocean vessel has a certain set of signals to indicate her name. No two vessels belonging to the same company have the same signals. There are no vowels .i the code. After reading" the flags or letters, as they are nautically called, the observer goes to a big book containing the names and signals of every ocean going craft, and he picks out the name of the incoming vessel in a jiffy. Then he goes to the telegraph key, and before the incoming vessel has trav eled more than a few cables' length the report that the So-and-So is "coming up" is on the Maritime Excharge and in shipping circle; generally. The opera tors have a regular code for reporting the vessels. Iii stands for Highlands, G for Hook and Rn for Quarantine. Here's how the crude reports read: 8, Veendam L Rn; 9:04, City of New York P in G; 7:10, La Bourgogne clear G; 10:4) stg S S P in G; no sig .rom east; 11:03, Newport, S of L B, Hi. All of which interpreted means' 8 o'clock, steamer Veendam, leaving Quar. antine: 9:04, sceamer City of New York, passing in Sandy Hook; 7:40, steamier La Bourgogue has cleared the bar bound seaward; 10:40, a strange steane passing in Hook, showed no - signals, came from the east; and 11:03, steamer Newport, south of Long Branch, re ported by the Ilighlands. That's hov the marine news is dished up. Fiag are used as signals during the day, bat al nihts lights are flared up, sky rocketi and roman candles are discharged b2 vessels to inform the observers of theu names. Every line has a fixed night signal such as three white lights burned for ward, amidships and aft, a blue and rec forward and aft, three reds, etc. T1here are hundreds of ditlerent ways of burn ing these lights_ and rockets so tat t! bserver may know to what line the ves el belongs. He cannot tell the name eJ the vessel by them, but he generally knows what ship is due in any p~articai ar line and his good judgment does the rest. In addition to reporting the. move ments of shipping, the marine observer has to maintain an hourly inspection over in instrument which records the velocity and direction of the winds. Tbis is done for the Government, and for that sev vice he gets extra pay. Then he has frequently to give orders to incoming nssels. This, too, is done by flags. "You are ordered to Philadelphia," or "Go to Charleston to load," is told by two flags, but it requires a lot of hard work to pick these signals from the code book, hoist the tLags to the peak of the hagstaff and keep an open eye for other vessels, and receive private telegraph "business" at the same time. The disaster signals of incoming craft tre also a source of great trouble to the oarine operator. The mere presence of he signal flags H. B., N. M. or N. V. in the rigging of an incoming ship would -nean nothing to the landsman,but to the narine observer they indicate a dreadful predicament, the first signal reading, "[ want immediate assistance," the second, "I am on tire," and the third, "I am ;irking." The marine observers have saved many Sgood ship from destruction. They have andled the letters J. D.--"You are tanding into danger"--.thousand of times, id with their old have warned mariners o had ventured too far in shore or too aear some dangerous shoal. - At the Quarantine station there are our operators and two news gatherers. rhe latter go aboard all the vessels from oreign ports, get their manifests, ab tracts of logs, passenger lists, if they mave any, and such other papers and in ormation as the shipping world may re mire. One works during the day, the ithier at night. The wirethat runs from ~e Highlands of Navesink, Sandy Hook d Quarantine has three conneet.ons in ihis city. One is at the Maritime Ex :iange, the second at the Ship News )ice at the Battery, and the thirdi in he Western Union main office. There is Swire to Fire Island, but this connects vith the main office only. These wires Iriginally belonged to the Sandy Hook, Quarantine and City Island Telegraph 30mpny, an enterprise of the Maritime ?xchange, which was absorbed by the Western Union a few years ago. The observatory at Fire Island is sout as tall as that of Sandy Hook. The a'tter is nine stories high. It is a nar ow, dingy tower. andl is braced by ia nense stays that run crosswise through ts interior. There arc four portholes or hi story or Onua 'n ach suile. Thes' prtnoles are used for the telescopes with which the vessels are sighted. Out mide the portholes are faa-shaped ledged with covers to keep the telescopes from falling when suddenly abandoned and also to prevenit the rain fromn falling on the glass and obscuring the vision. The telegraph company charges $1 for reporting an incoming veesel. Of late rears an extra fee of twenty-five ceats has been put on by boatmen who want to know whether their boats are coming in from a crmise "light" or with a tow. The chiel marine observer receives a 'An effort was ma 6 gto get one of the many operators in the main office to take his berth, but all refused. "We do not wish to be buried a!ive," they said. This same De La Motte has been a life time in the service and it will be hard to get a man to fill his shoes. His family hve at Sandy Hook with him. They have a cottage on the inside beach, near the life saving station. It takes five hours for a steamer to reach her pier after being sighted o'l Fire Island. Twvo hour3 of this are al lowed for the journey between Fire Is'and and Sandy Hook, one hour from Sandy Hook to Quarantine, an hour's delay at the boarding station, and an hour's steamin from Quarantine to her pier. -New York MKil and Express. A Curious House Built by Nafure. It is a grand house and to build one like it would cost millions of dollars, if it could be done at all. And yet the man who lived in it had hardly a dol. lar to his name. But then he didn't buy the .mse, beeause it was made by nature on the rocky walls of Cabino Canyon, in Arizona, thousands of years ago, and has been ready for an occa pant ever since. The man who lives in it is a pros. pector known as Mike. What other name ho has is not known, and besides it doesn't natter. He says he was going up the canyon one day a year or so ago when he first saw the place, and thought it was a honse built by man. When he saw his mistake he simply took possession. Mike's house is truly a most deceptive piece of nature's handiwork and a very useful one. It ;is on the canyon walls, probably 100 ~eet above the bottom and a flight of natural stone steps leads up to it. It is hard to convince one's self that it is not the work of man until it is ex amined closely, when its enormous size slone would make a person know dif ferently. It is only one story, but the outside wall is over 100 feet high. The door, which is in good propor tion, is over tn enty-fivc feet high, and the room on the inside reaches up and ends in a black vault that there is no telling how far away it is. When Mike wants a tire he just makes it on the floor and the smoke curls up to the top and disappears somewhere. This is somewhat strange, as no water comes into the place and the smoke oannot be seen coming out anywhere. But it very likely goes through some issure into a cave beyond. But Mike doesn't cAre where it goes. He is satisfied with the convenience, and thinks he is the best fixed pros pector in the mountains. This house of rock is most stronly suggestive of Egyptian architecture, and also bears a great resemblance to some of the cave d wellings in the Salt River Valley. The thing is an interesting curiosity, and although it is the house of a pros pector now there is a strong possibility that it may in the past have done duty as a home for some members of the lost races of this strange country. -San Francisco Call. Horse Breedlng. - Horsc breeding is one of the important industries of the country, and of recent years there has been a noticeable increa-se competition of the West Li not felt in the Atlantic States in horse- breeding as in cattle growing. A tair idea of the rela tive importance of this industry in the varying sections is given in the reports of the several State agents to the Depart ment at Washington. It is claimed by the New York State agent that in New York the soil, grass and water produce horses of stronge' bone, sounder feet and harder musclea than the alkaline soil on which so many Western horses are reared, and that at tention is given to the breeding of a finer class of horses for road and carri age purposes. This claim, however, is not admitted by those interested mn horse breeding in the West. Improvement in number and quality of horses is reported in Virginia. T.~he introduction of Ham bletonian and cher strains of thorough bred blood has been of great advantage in North Carolina. In the cotton States, especially the Gulf States east of Texas, the rule has been to purchase from Ten nessee or Kentucky in preference to rais ing horses, but there are signs of some change in this respect. A tendency is noted in Texas to im provement through better breeds. Ken tucky. shows no tendency to reduction of numbers though prices are not satisfac tory. Through the Ohio Valley there is litte change in numbers of horses. Horse raising in Iowva is less absorbing as a rural enterprise that it has been except as to trotting stock. There is a ready sae for well bred horses in Missouri at a good price, and increasing tendency tc improvement in quality. In Kansas the supply is greater than the demand ex cept for desiracle draught horses. A strong tendency to increase the stock of horses ia apparent on the Pasciflc coast, and especially in California.--N.v York Viord. Guiana Indian Customs. About nine miles above Akymna is a (arge village of aboriginal Mdacusi In ans. They are said to be peaceable savages, who build little grass huts and o about in pui naituralibus. Among' their singular customs is that of ban iaging the legs just below the knee and around the ankle, so aLs to p)roduce an abnormally large calf, beginning the :ractice in infancy, as the Flathead In lans do with their heads and the Chi aese with their feet. Dame fashion die ;ates strange things even in these re note parts. Their neighbors, the Caribs, follow her decrees by making a pin ushion of the lower lip, by sticking ato it several long, slender pins of one or steel, resembling knitting aeedles, or sharp thorns where pins re unobtainable, which they remove or the exigencies of eating anid kiss ng, and afterward return to the same lace. -Philadeiohia Record Capital Punishment. Capital punishment in Russia, Eng. land, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, except New York, is by hang ing ; in France, by the guillotine ; in Soain, garrote; in Germany and most other European countries, by behead Breeding png dogs is one of the in A BANANA SALE. PICTURESQUE SCENES ON A NEV YORK PIER. Disposing of a Cargo of the Fruit a Auction-Engaging Longshore men to Coload the Vessel Sorting the Bunches. RECENTLY inaugurated sys tem of selling the incoming cargoes of bananas at pultit auction is meeting with grea success. It is estimated that fully sixt per cent. of the imported fruit is nov disposed to the highest bidder. These sales, which occur irregularly, whenever a steamer arrives, are hell on Pier 3 North River. The vessel: employed in the trade register fron 800 to 1400 tons. They are chartere' by the importing houses of New York and fly either the English or the Nor wegian flag. Whenever a steamer bear ing the popular fruit is reported out side notice is given to the trade. Th sale begins as soon as the steamei makes the dock and its hatches ar< opened. One of these sales occurred on the steamer America. It was announcet that she wonld reach Pier 3 at 2 p. m. At that hour the pier was crowded wit] chattering Italians, representatives o: dealers and longshoremen. The long shoremen were waiting for a chance t( work at unloading the steamer. Through what seemed to be an im penetrable mass of barges, car-float and other craft in the slip the Americi forced her way. As she glided alon the pier, before she was even made fast the owners of the cargo, the auctionee and his assistants, the tally clerks, th graders, the boss stevedore and th prospective buyers, jumped aboard ani anxiously gazed into her hold. Th hatches had been removed. Th weather had been stormy, and it wa expected that in addition to the usua wear and tear to which the fruit is ex posed it had suffered from the tossin. of the vessel in its tempestuous jour ney. The appearance of the fruit wa! reassuring. It had been well stowe< away and was in good condition. Hanging platforms were rigged ill from deck to deck, and a number o trucks backed to the dock's edge. Thei came a curious scene. The boss steve dore produced from somewhere a sial canvas bag. As he was seen with it i his hand the longshoremen made a rus] for him. With the assistance of i policeman they were driven back ant kept at a distance from the stevedore who made his way across West stree and mounted an empty truck standin; atthecurb. Thelongshoremen masse< themselves around the impromptu stant and, with expectant looks, held il their hands as boys do in the school room to eatch the teacher's eye. The stevedore scanned the upturnet faces. He was looking for men tha he knew were active and sober. As h< picked his men, he called them b' name-such namues as "Mixed Ale Pat, "Big Steve," "Shorty," "Old Con nolly," "Freshy," and others not in tended for publication. As each mar heard his name or nickname called look of satisfaction came over his fac, and he eagerly pushed his way to th< truck, where the boss stevedore hanide< round, brass check, with a stamped umber. A station on the pier, on the eck or between decks, also was as ;igned to each man. He hurried to the ;hip and reported to the time-keeper or identification. A gang of twenty men were selected, nd it was announced that in half atn our another set would he picked out. .s the work of unloading progresses ore men are needed to pass the unches from hand to hand from hold o pier. As a measure of economy the ne are hired only when they cmi be ctually used. When all was in readiness, the men in line, two trucks for each M'tehway, Sgrader after each hatch adi a tally Dlerk for each truck, the auctioneer nountedl his rostrum. It was a tall stand with a canvas awning. There he called the buyers to order. These had gathered on the ship's bridge, from which point of var'tagc they overlooked the entire operation and sa the con dition of every bunch. These were baanded up from hand to hand, and as they passed the grader he gave them one look and classified them as "one,' "two" or "dock." "Ones" were th. so-called "nine hands ;" "twos," the. so-called "nine hands" rejected (smaller bunches), and "docks" the over ripe, damaged or loose and broken bunches. These are dumped in old fruit boxes and disposed of after the fruit in good condition has been sold. Each truck bears a sign on ai pole on which is chalked the numnber of the truck and the grade of thet bananas. As soon as the truck has its full load of banana bunches, which i' the unit of these auction transactions, the tally clerk informs the auctioneer: who shouts the number of the truel and calls for bids. The dealers are all Italiane, ant most of those at the sale are familiaa figures at the auctions of Californi fruit, which are conducted by the same auctioneer. If a person wishes to taste a banan in all its lusciousness he should eat on: of those which have ripened natural1 n transit. The full tiavor of the frmi is intact, which is not the case wit! the bunches ripened artiticially by th~ ew York dealers.--New York Wodd WHAT SAVED EHI. "Time I was out in Colorado," sai; Ie man with the ginger beard, "I wot esed by the bloody Injuns into cave, and had to stay there thra. bonths without anything to esit." Here the mar with the ginger beare looked arouna detiantly, expectii ~me one to doubt his assertiont. hi:t i no one spoke, he was compelled i~ explain. 'I s'pose I would ha' starved," i cntined, "if it hadn't ben fer iu wife and family back East. Whenewe [ would git to' thinkin' of them, a bi lump would rise right up in my throat ~nd, by swallerin' that, I kep nysel fom starving. ".-Indianapolis3ourinal GREAT EFFORT. "Yes, I wrote that," said the poc "It's one of my greatest efforts." "That's what I thought," said lh friend. "It was one of my greatest e. forts to read it." - Chicago Nie Recor-d wORDS OF WISDON1 Worry is a tack in our shoe. Poverty and sin are partners. A kiss is a language to itself. A siah is the effervescence of sorrow There's crape on the door of the whol world. Every man has in his heart a slumber :n ncg. Who ceases to be a friend never wa; a friend. A bird would sing just the same if no body heard it. Tl'he prettiest women are rarely ti )rcttieet wives. D. they call it a white lie because th dirt shows on it so easily. He who deserves nothing has no righ to complain of anything. We like those to whom we do goo( better than those who do us good. True courage never figures on results, Prudence looks after that consideration The average reformer never sails int< the faults to whi.h he himself is ad dicted, Happiness is the shadow of man; re membrance of it follows him; hope of il precedes him. If Cleopstra's nose had been shorte the face of the whole world would havi been changed. The mind of each man is the focus c the human race and his voice an echo c the whole creation. Everything else of time melts int eternity without resistance or complaint Why does not man? Oaly because he i: sinful and discordant. Archimedes sits in history crowne, forever with that golden crown of Hier by means of which he discovered th, law of specitic gravities. The disinterested lover of beauty goes throuzh the worli as free as a humn ming bird, and advances wherever th< iivinity plants his lures. SELECT SIFTINGS. Asphalt pavement was first laid i Paris in 1854. A calf in Lumberton, Conn., capture and eats chickens. A man in Liberty, Me., has whisker eight feet in length. A gold coin depreciates five per ceni in value in sixteeu years of constal I Use. The first trial of woman suifragE curiously enough, was on the Isle Man. Soldiers in the Italian arnv are at lowed cigars as part of their daily r: tions. I At Vernon, Mich., a hen has take to watching over a litter of young pie day and night. 1 An eccentric Philadelphian whos ill was urobated the other day stipu Lated that the entire estate, valued nearly $300,000, be converted into go: coln. ;Lameness in horses is somectim! cured by giving them the opportunit to swim. In swimming tihe samne mus cles are exercised as in trotting, bt Iwithout pain to feet or legs. 'In Germany rand Hungary mnag qaites are attac'hedI to the~ lime inden meTI(. Ini someI vallages it prevent a witch from entering. Katie Smith is a little eight-year-ol girl, of Chi'ago, Il]., whio is withou hands. By means of an artificial han. ~he writes legibly, and she alo write by holding the pen in her ioouth. At the entrance of the hairbr oi I~astia, in Corsicoi, is a rock which bear ytriking resemnblance to a lion couchant byen to its mane, which is formed by.a hick growth of bushes andll creeping dpants. IHortensius, the Roman orator, ha; bt memnory so wondsrful that, on wvager, he spent a whole day nt a: ution and at night repeated all th< ales, the prices and the names of th; ~byers. A drawing of Charles I.'s head in St. ohn College, Oxford, England, pre ents, at a short distance, the appear knee of engraved lines, b)ut on closi nspection th1ese lines are found to con tain the Psalms, creed and the Lord' prayer. ;The Adersbach rock~s, in Rohemia cover some fifteen square miles. The, are formed of sandstone, and are in kerspersed with a perfect maze of pas sages shut in by smooth wall:s of snel similarity t ha-t to keep one's bearingi no easy matter. Cromlechs, found in many coun~ tries, are rude monuments tfo thie dead Nearly seventy round towers, fron thirty to 135 feet high, are found i: various parts of Ireland. Tihey ar< believed to have beeni used in the eer emonies of fireworship. The native place of the pohato is stil an open question. but is p)robably th tropical regionis of Ame-:rica. Therei a tradition that the vines.' onlce grew t monstrous size, and tht the "baLls were of the ''bigness of melons," an' at that time the roots were not tuber; the edible parts growing among th branches. An alventurer who h-id drifted int: wihout fojod ,r mener&~. He went ou and sh'ot a deer, whiich in its dyin: agnes kicked up~ the dirt and dis ecosed -igns of gold. The poor mai staked ouit aT claim, and opened one ( hem:> p~d~.~ro)itable mniues e-:er wor~es uL Leville. WShat WrinleiSignify. ,Wrikle I forehells in cail~Irca be I'.kea coasum,tion, rickets or idice V ~rtical -::inkles of the brow comne earl to nnam who do) mu::1 hrain wor' Arched and crosmia; wrinkles a20: the. lower iddle of tie fordie~s I t)ne piiclor mental s:i:ferKn .. FE eose-meiedh~ wrinkles wic'a cover t. face, si:zn of age and decrepitu le, at causedl by loss of contractihe nerv force, and are prevented by hot bathin: frction and. elcctrizity.-At!aata CX. stctionl. CIYT Us POOR REE.ATIONS. Upson D.ovnes-"Parveneer belies in pruning his gcnealog~ical tree." R. Iwne de Boutr-"How is thiat?" U~ pson Downes-"H~e cuta his p< Idaho uas a Wild [ai ' Tae wild man of Idaho has again mad4 his appearance. Many of the people 'ir ing in Long Valley, in Boise County, bave reported having seen him in the timber of the surrounding mountains upon several occasions. A sheep herder, while tending his aock, saw a man wandering along the ridges of the mountains who would dis. spear as soon as he saw that he was ob 3 served. The herder hid in a tree, and was rewarded by a sight of the uncanny . teing. Lie was a man about five and a half feet in height, with dark brown hair , reaching almost to his knees, matted and Interwoven with burs. His beard was long and similarly adorned. He were what was at one time a pair of gray duck )veralls, but it was tattered and torn. t [a his hand he carried a short hesvy itick. As he was passing along a grouse lew up, and, quick as a flash, the wild man threw his stick, and with such un. -rring aim that the bird was killed. It was then eaten raw. The herder hastened to his camp, sad. Iled his horse, and pursued the wild nan, and when he had overtaken him, !adeavored to secure him by means of a ariat, but faiied. The strange being ma with the speed of a mintain goat sver rocks where no horse could follo 7. Since that time, more than a month ago, he has not been seen or beard from. Several insane persons have escapel from the asylum at Blackfoot as well as from the penitentiary at Boise City. A number of tham have never been beard from, and it is probable that the wild mau is one of them.-New York Ti:nes From Prosperity to Poverty. We have only to study the everyday life around us to realize the truth of the scriptural saying that "riches have w~ings." A few days ago our news column. contained a brief statement to the ef I xext that a man in New York who had ence ranked with the money kings of ithe metropolis had been arrested fez .tealigii a loaf of bread worth eighLt i-ents. Greed led this man into unsue eessful speculations, and at last, friend Less and penniless, his thrift degen -rated into theft, and the jail saved him from stervation. I And now it is announced that Henry llugh McCosh, once the right hand . man of A. T. Stewart, the dry goods t prince, dropped dead in. a dirty alley in the slums of New York. Succes turned his head and made him a - drunkard. He squandered his fortune, ain a man he had befriended paid him 1 day as a sort of pension. This sum was expended in liquor, and it turned the once prosperous merchant into the bloated corrse of a pauper. n I Whether men are sober or sottsh, s virtuous _r vicious, wise or foolish, they cannot with any degree of cer e taincy 0ount on the favors of fickle forone. One is wrecked through his t good and strong points, and ancther d through his bad and weak points. The shrewdest man of business may get to s the top of the hill onl to make a pre Scipitate descent, while his Silly Billy .of a neighbor blunaers into the place t left vacant. But it is a small mat ter-this descent from riches to poverty-when we take ethe right view of it. The millionaire r and the mendicant of to-day are bound fin themselves on the same level in a not hor v - p'e os p and the other goes down in this world, w' should anybody cry ; We have been t f-riwrued that these thingrs must be xeetea. -Atlanta Constitution. Ueogs Heney in S ie Plihing. Sothey maike money out of vmalI . sings inahotci?" exclaimed the New York drummer with the lynx eye and cat-like tread. "Well, miy I fail to age un ten dolla to the house for l Xnses niot incurre-1 if they don't. I'll aive you an illustration. Out in a caty Where they are going to hold a big fair, thees one paracular big hotel of many. A. " spce~ ia th~e basement is devoted to 00 totackicg establishment. Every mine is registered on an indicator. Tere ar'e about tse'atv chairs. I have een as~ high as 550J shines registered in e dla. It never falls below 450. \e wil say that 509 is> a fair daily verae. At ten cents a shine the day's eceCits are lifry dollars,or $350 a week, $150J a month, and $18,500 a year-the icomne of a fortune of $400,000 at five pecr cent. aal all from so triflinrg a thinig -9 -b btblackings-.-Washintonl SLar. soULD~gT FOOL EIM. "Nay, there, said the art deailer, trinig asi-le the curtain that hid his - tramure fromn view,."is a genuine Titian in excellert preservation.. It's the gem of the collectLi." 3 r. i:.ixell regy;dedl the litt'e paint -ing critically. "Humn-what's it wizU." M'' da 1 nnded. 3"Five thousand dolla.s.-' s"Fire thousand dolbi~r'1" echoed Mr. o Gaswell in the cold, bard tones of a man ccusomed to running up against all I s'orts of gat.es and getting the best of them; "if my daughter Sarah can't e paint a better-looking picture than that at an outside cost of $4 75, frame and i, I eat it. Show me something big. cr."-C iicago Tm i bune. -A r.UsY MtAN. lIe was a big, srrong, healthy-looking ~felow', and when he knocked at a kithen door on Antoinestocet and asaked for~ something to eat, the womi:m was no' britably disposecd. "Want something to cat, do you?" shin snapped. "I'm very hungry, ma'am," he re sponded. "You ought to be." Y I a:n," he admsitted, 1.u-ubly. C- 4"Why dou't vou go to wor.d" 1 'Klaven't timec?" 'ie asked inmitpe S"N.o, ma'amn. I'm biu." e '-i~usy, indee-l!' she said, sarcauti caly. "I'd like to know wvhat kes 15vou busvT" -' "Humsrtn' aro;ud froi house to house, m:1'am. "H um:uin' arotund fro:n house to home, .maaan, tryin' to -;k s.,.netin-i to~ ea', in:es uin all- i;,- tioe, s I4 dojet' have ny lct 'to wvor 'r. T'uat's the gospel es tr t, msa'amn; an li' u d->a't give me a bite I'll have to waste twvo er three precious hours, m'anm, le~k:n' up some. 010 body that will,-' a-i his nerre saved